... see:- ... Apologies for not getting back to you sooner, Andrew. I continue to have a great deal going on at the moment. We can certainly dispense with the...
... Atheist or not, Davies impresses me as operating under the assumption that these scriptures are expected to provide information corroborating one aspect or...
... Yes, naïf indeed! Ya know, before our initial venturing into the Internet all those years ago, I'm sure that I would NEVER have believed that people...
... thing ... The ... Okay, consider what I was discussing previously with Andrew. Do we consider it "gnosis" that some people have a "need" to support their...
please forgive my ignorance of being new on this journey, I think I will just hang around and read for a while with out posting. Although sometimes I learn...
Hey Teafourme You state..... ... will just hang around and read for a while with out posting. Although sometimes I learn more by asking questions and...
... There seems to be a pervasive need in popular culture to commonly think in terms of historical figures when it comes to religious matters. And mostly I...
... I think I agree too. It's a find, looks to be an archeological find, and we should, yup, I'd imagine try looking/investigating it as that. It'll be...
I think things go/can go odd in acheology sometimes. Sometimes, it simply takes time to sort things out. For example (an example which I think is kinda...
Hey Mike ... Although I agree with Eisenman for being critical of the discoveries, I was taken aback by this statement from him... "And what of this "Mary"'s...
... nothing ... with an ... eyes? ... Greetings, Mike and PMCV: AMEN! It's about time that people accept that, in fact, "The Da Vinci Code" is a book of...
... Vinci ... of ... never ... al. ... their ... and ... never ... Hello, + Tau Mar Thoma. We've had many discussions about how the ancient Gnostics might...
... To me Cari, the books are the lead into the experiential thing, no more no less, sort of like a road map. Now I'll shut up and let the two of you talk....
Hey Tau Mar Thoma ... Vinci Code" is a book of fictions, not inspired by the True God, but comprised of a clever concoction of facts<<< I go even further than...
... what ... Gnosis," ... reading ... ancients ... more ... of ... Hi, Mike. Certainly there is no need to "shut up." Silence can be deafening at times. ;-)...
... I agree, and ritual has its part. Being ordained a Deacon and then a Priest were numinous experiences, but geared to service, and initiation in support...
I'm continually fascinated by the story of the Garden of Eden and it's various version in Gnostic books. My take is that the Garden was a mystical experience...
Thomas ... people of different religious experiences experience. In a book by a Transpersonal writer Ken Wilber, he more or less dissess Eden as a pre-egoistic...
Brightest Blessings, Thomas! What a blessed name! You aren't kin to the famous (infamous?) brothers that made the Matrix, are you? I agree with you on a few...
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... Hello, Thomas. You seem interested in "roots" and, surely, the Gnostics were concerned about origins and cosmogony, origin of the cosmos. What about the...
... to ... does ... myself. ... the ... were the first modern humans on earth. Of course there were other creautres, hominids, predecessors to Adam and Eve,...
Blessings, Thomas! Wanted to respond off group, we will get a perverbial finger shook at us, I have run into this on G2 before; it was made very clear to me...
... the ... is ... Wilbur, ... While I don't disagree with the Gnostic point of view, I think that what we need to remember is there is two ways to look at it....
Hey Thomas In response to Cari's question you state... ... were the first modern humans on earth. Of course there were other creautres, hominids, predecessors...
... from ... culminating ... does ... to ... point", ... failure ... Ok. My take is that the authors intent was important, but that it is a more nuanced...
... historical text that causes Imdarkchylde to say we "miss the point", but in spite of her judgemental presumption of our spiritual failure I feel that...
